How in the world are undecided voters going to decide who to vote for?

Frida Ghitis: As we swing into the final month of the 2024 presidential election, the mystery of undecided voters is the mystery.

She says a 2004 New Republic piece by Chris Hayes , a future MSNBC host, was an example of how political junkies think.

Ghitis says mainstream journalism’s rigid conventions, rigid genre conventions distort perception so much that no mainstream journalist admits such a thing.

Bob Greene asks students to imagine themselves as historians 75 years ago , reading, say, front-page articles from The New York Times in 2016 .

They might conclude that Hillary Clinton was equally as corrupt as Donald Trump , or even more corrupt.

Greene: If the authoritarians in control of the Republican Party achieve enough power, they will start methodically knocking off liberal institutions, including politically independent journalism.

David Gergen : Why did Trump promise to “build an Iron Dome over our country” to be sure that “nothing can come and harm our people It’s America first , America first ” Gergen says it offers fantasy of reversion to an infantile state, where nothing can harm you.

He says the promise can seduce and transform even intelligent, apparently mature, kind-hearted people formerly committed to liberal politics.

Gergen asks: Is my theory correct, or nonsense?.